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A woman brought her child with an abscess in the lower part of the back,
and offered as much corn as she could carry for some medicine;
we administered to it of course very cheerfully.
- Meriwether Lewis
Captain Clarke who had gone out yesterday with eighteen
men to bring in the meat we had killed the day before,
and to continue the hunt, came in at twelve o'clock.
- Meriwether Lewis
Great numbers of the Indians pass our camp on their hunting excursions:
the day was clear and pleasant,
but last night was very cold and there was a white frost.
- Meriwether Lewis
The day cold and fair with a high easterly wind:
we were visited by two Indians who gave us an account
of the country and people near the Rocky mountains where they had been.
- Meriwether Lewis
On the acquisition of Louisiana, in the year 1803,
the attention of the government of the United States,
was early directed towards exploring and improving the new territory.
- Meriwether Lewis
We had high and boisterous winds last night and this morning:
the Indians continue to purchase repairs with grain of different kinds.
- Meriwether Lewis
The weather was fine and moderate.
The hunters all returned, having killed during their absence three elk,
four deer, two porcupines, a fox and a hare.
- Meriwether Lewis
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A clear cold morning with high wind:
we caught in a trap a large gray wolf,
and last night obtained in the same way a fox who had
for some time infested the neighbourhood of the fort.
- Meriwether Lewis
We were also fortunate enough to engage in our service a Canadian Frenchmen,
who had been with the Chayenne Indians on the Black mountains,
and last summer descended thence by the Little Missouri.
- Meriwether Lewis
The weather became so intensely cold that we sent for
all the hunters who had remained out with captain Clarke's party,
and they returned in the evening several of them frostbitten.
- Meriwether Lewis
The rain, which had continued yesterday and last night,
ceased this morning.
We then proceeded, and after passing two small islands about ten miles further,
stopped for the night at Piper's landing,
opposite another island.
- Meriwether Lewis
We procured from an Indian a weasel perfectly white
except the extremity of the tail which was black:
great numbers of wild geese are passing to the south,
but their flight is too high for us to procure any of them.
- Meriwether Lewis
Every man and woman is born into the world
to do something unique and something distinctive;
and if he or she does not do it,
it will never be done.
- Benjamin E. Mays
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
- Socrates
It doesn't matter how long my hair is
or what color my skin is
or whether I'm a woman or a man.
- John Lennon
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits
and then complain that he's not the man she married?
- Barbra Streisand
The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing.
The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend,
one human soul whom we can trust utterly,
who knows the best and worst of us,
and who loves us in spite of all our faults.
- Charles Kingsley
What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman
in the midst of this world,
where each person is clinging to his piece of debris?
What's the proper salutation between people
as they pass each other in this flood?
- The Buddha
A man never knows how to say goodbye;
a woman never knows when to say it.
- Helen Rowland
There are two times when a man doesn't understand a woman -
before marriage and after marriage.
- Anonymous
A pregnant woman facing the most dire circumstances
must be able to count on her doctor to do what is medically
necessary to protect her from serious physical harm.
- Barbara Mikulski
Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband
a month before she marries him
and what she thinks of him a year afterward,
and you will have the truth about him.
- H. L. Mencken
As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.
- John Lennon
A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror.
As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.
- Carl Jung
Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices
unless she hasn't done it.
- Evan Esar
Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman,
but no angel.
- Doris Lessing
No matter how love-sick a woman is, she shouldn't take
the first pill that comes along.
- Joyce Brothers
I don't need plastic in my body to validate me as a woman.
- Courtney Love
A woman's life can really be a succession of lives,
each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge,
and each marked off by some intense experience.
- Wallis Simpson
I concentrate on exercises from the waist down,
since that is the laziest part of a woman's body.
- Tina Louise
Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting
on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother:
the alternatives are all too expensive.
- Ann Oakley
No man succeeds without a good woman behind him.
Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.
- Harold MacMillan
The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
A woman's best protection is a little money of her own.
- Clare Boothe Luce
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend.
A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
- Lana Turner
What motivated me? My mother.
My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman,
struggled all her life, worked in the garment center.
- Al Lewis
Any woman who understands the problems of running a
home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.
- Margaret Thatcher
Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.
- Jim Carrey
I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.
- Stanley Baldwin
Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers.
- Hesiod
Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find
a woman I don't like and give her a house.
- Lewis Grizzard
There are four stages in a marriage.
First there's the affair,
then the marriage,
then children
and finally the fourth stage,
without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.
- Norman Mailer
A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is
glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears.
- Anne Roiphe
I design for the woman who loves being a woman.
- Diane von Furstenberg
Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
- H. L. Mencken
In order to be happy with a man,
you must understand him a lot and love him a little.
To be happy with a woman, you must love her a lot
and not try to understand her at all.
- Helen Rowland
A married woman has the same right to control her own
body as does an unmarried woman.
- Sol Wachtler
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
- Virginia Woolf
Some husbands are living proof that a woman can take a joke.
- Anonymous
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned,
nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
- William Congreve
A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
- Wallace Stevens
The man in our society is the breadwinner;
the woman has enough to do as the homemaker,
wife and mother.
- Dorothy Fields
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have.
The older she gets the more interested he is in her.
- Agatha Christie
It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads
when he thinks of marrying;
it's separating himself from all the others.
- Helen Rowland
Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you;
she is after your barn.
- Hesiod
A woman can take care of the family.
It takes a man to provide structure,
to provide stability.
- Tom DeLay
A woman must combine the role of mother,
wife and politician.
- Emma Bonino
It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human.
I am a woman first of all.
- Anais Nin
It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid
pregnancy by a resort to mathematics,
though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.
- H. L. Mencken
I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
- Walt Disney
As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family,
she has a good right to them.
- Josh Billings
Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
- Ambrose Bierce
A woman should be home with the children,
building that home and making sure there's a secure family atmosphere.
- Mel Gibson
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
- Ambrose Bierce
A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.
- Adlai E. Stevenson
A woman has to be intelligent, have charm,
a sense of humor, and be kind.
It's the same qualities I require from a man.
- Catherine Deneuve
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and
dissected at least one woman.
- Honore de Balzac
One should never trust a woman who tells her real age.
If she tells that, she'll tell anything.
- Oscar Wilde
To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
- Golda Meir
A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
- Honore de Balzac
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